Barrel



(No Model.)

O. E. PARKS.

BARREL.

No. 441,694. Patented Dec. 2,1890.

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NITED STATES tries.

BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,694, dated December 2, 1890.

Application filed November 29, 1889. Serial No. 331,949. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. PARKS, of \Vatertown, in the county of Jefferson, and in the State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Packing Barrels or Crates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to packing barrels or crates; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction, as will be fully set forth hereinafter and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View, partly broken away, of one form of my present invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away, of the same form. Fig. 3 is a similar view to that shown in Fig. 1, illustrating another form. Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is avertical section of another form of head or end for my device, and Fig. 7 is a similar section of part of a barrel or crate designed to be closed by said head or end. Fig. 8 is another detail sectional view.

My present invention is constructed chiefly of the fabric described in my prior patents, numbered 386,157 and 409,699, and dated July 17, 1888, and August 27, 1889, respectively, consisting of a warp of wire or cord and a flexible wooden filling woven in and out or over and under said wires or cords, substantially the same as shown and described in said patents.

A A represent hoops of ordinary construe tion, whose ends are overlapped in the usual manner, to which are secured the thin wooden slats a a a a constituting, as stated, my flexible filling, a designating one end slat and a the other end slat and a a the intermediate slats, and Z; b b designate the pieces of wire or cord (preferably the former) which constitute, as stated, the warp of my fabric.

B B designate the heads or ends of mybarrel or package, and the same may be either in one piece, as shown in Fig. 1, or in two or more sections, as represented in Fig. 2, and secured as hereinafter described.

I unite the ends of the slat-filling a a to the hoops A A by short nails or brads c c, driven either from the inside or outside, as

preferred, and having their ends preferably clinched to avoid the accidental separation of the parts. The end slats a a are brought together to complete the barrel, and may be either lapped, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 5, or simply brought edge to edge, as in Fig. 3, the opposing ends of the warp-wires b being tightly secured to the slats, as by staples, as shown at (Z (Z, preferably on the outside, I then have a cylindrical package open ateach end. I next insert one of my heads or ends B and secure the same in place by driving nails or brads e 6 through the hoop and slat filling and into the edges of the said heads. The other head is intended to be similarly secured aft-er the package receives its contents.

If preferred, I may supply one or both ends of my barrel or package with the removable heads shown in Fig. 6, where the head B has a surrounding flange B to make a cover, and

which is of proper size to just snugly fit over the hoopAon the end of the open cylindrical barrel or open end of the barrel shown in Fig. 7, and the said cover can be very quickly secured in place by driving nails through the said flange B into the hoop and slat endsin an obvious manner.

My barrels thus made are especially well designed for containing fruit, as air can circulate through between the slats at the points of intersection of the same with the wire or cord warp,while the union of the slats is sufficiently close to prevent the loss of the contents, and if cord is used in place of wire the ends may be firmly tied to the end slats or knotted and fastened by tacks, screws, orstapies, as preferred. My packages also form excellent jackets for kerosene-oil cans and other packages of sheet metal or of glass and other breakable material.

In Fig. 8 I show still another Way of securing the heads B to placenamely, by the use of head-linings c e',which may be secured to the inner surface of the cylindrical package at intervals either on one or both sides of the head, as preferred. As stated, I prefer to secure the ends of the warp-wires by staples; but I may use tacks, screws, or any other securing devices with the warp wires or cords.

If preferred in any instance, I may steam the slatted fabric and bend itaround like a series of barrel -hoops and attach the hoops and heads, as before, the chief difference being that with this construction the warp wires or cords I) would extend vertically from top to bottom, instead of horizontally around the package.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cylindrical package consisting of a continuous fabric composed of a slatted filling of thin strips of wood woven in and out or over and under, and a warp composed of series of single wires or cords having their ends fastened to the slats of the fabric and the said slats fastened to hoops, substantially as set forth.

2. A cylindrical package consisting of a continuous fabric composed of a series of single wires or cords forming a warp, and a slatted filling of thin strips of wood woven in and out or under and over said warp, with the end slats of said filling overlapped and the warp ends fastened to the slats of the fabric, and hoops secured to the ends of said slats on the outside thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. A cylindrical package consisting of a continuous fabric composed of a slatted filling of thin strips of wood woven in and out or over and under, a warp composed of series of single wires or cords, the end slats of the filling being brought together and the ends of the warp wires or cords fastened to said slats, and the ends of said slats fastened to outside hoops, with heads or ends secured by nails passing into or through said heads, hoops, and slat ends, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of lllllWZLllkGO and State of \Visconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES I l. PARKS.

Witnesses:

ll. (i. 'Uivmcmvoon, WM. KLUG. 

